Corneal reconstruction with tissue-engineered cell sheets composed of autologous oral mucosal epithelium

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1187-1196

  Nishida, Kohji ^a   Yamato, Masayuki ^b   Hayashida, Yasutaka ^a   Watanabe, Katsuhiko ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Adachi, Eijiro ^c   Nagai, Shigeru ^b   Kikuchi, Akihiko ^b   Maeda, Naoyuki ^a   Watanabe, Hitoshi ^a   Okano, Teruo ^b   Tano, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; PATHOLOGY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; PEMPHIGOID, BENIGN MUCOUS MEMBRANE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 4544368036     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa040455     Document Type: Article

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